Cavalry life in tent and field
By: by Mrs. Orsemus Bronson Boyd.
Series: American women's diaries (Western women) -- LOCW0006; Western Americana : frontier history of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1550-1900 -- reel 65, no. 642; Western Americana (Xerox University Microfilms) -- WA20007.
Publisher: J. Selwin Tait & Sons
Published: 1894
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 376
Subjects: Boyd, Orsemus Bronson, d. 1885.; United States. Army -- Military life.; United States. Army. Cavalry.; Cavalry -- West (U.S.); Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- Description and travel -- 1860-1880.
Description: Begins with marriage and hardships of travel and life in the army including finances. Discusses visiting with Indians; enlisted men, officers and wives; lawlessness; housing; medical needs and care; and geography and scenery. Starts with complaints about the West and ends with a love of it. Covers California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and visits to Denver, St. Louis, Chicago and New York City.